Which Star Wars Was the BEST

[Water-Is-Evil]

ok , pretty simple here. What Star wars film was your favorite and why?

I cant really chose right now but ... im rewatching them now that im older

[link to present]

I choose all because all of the films are too good to just choose one of them

[elliotstriforce]

i chose a new hope because i love it when all the characters were introduced and it was the very first star wars movie ever made.

[MrMosley]

I have to go with Episode III. I've been a fan of Star Wars for a while, but I'm not like a crazy fanatic over it like some people are. A lot of the people who are long-time fans of the series dislike the new trilogy (I-III), and a lot of them also would pick Empire as their favorite. But for me, it was like Episode III was what everyone was waiting for, and it didn't disappoint IMO. Seeing Darth Vader (my favorite character) finally being put in the black suit was a big moment.

[linkman8]

Definitely agreed with MrMosley. When watching Revenge of the Sith, I felt they did a great job connecting the two plotlines together and filling in any loose ends. The acting by Iwan McGregor and Hayden Christensen, regardless of what anyone else says, I felt was phenomenal, especially watching that final scene between the two of them. Overall the movie was expertly done, and gives you a good feel on the poltiical turmoil in the Star Wars universe.

[KrazyKyuubi]

I've always liked Episode I. It's been my favorite since I was five.

[Dungeon killer]

I personally like the second one Attack of the Clones, I like all the action and seeing how the clone wars began.

[Niko Bellic 817]

My favorite is Return of the Jedi. The movie had great special effects for its time. The scene with Luke, the Emperor and Vader is the best part. Vader gets his arm chopped off...again. It's awesome when the Emperor is zapping Luke and Vader pauses to think whether or not he should kill the Emperor. At the last second, Vader picks up the Emperor and throws him down the pit. Luke drags Vader to his ship and takes off his mask to reveal his face. Ironic how Obi-Wan said that the only way to defeat the Emperor was for Luke to kill Vader, yet he was against it and taking off the mask makes him kill Vader anyways.

[Arkatox]

The Empire Strikes Back and A New Hope were the best, but I like TESB better than ANH. The prequel trilogy can't even begin to compare to the original trilogy, though they're still cool.

[Mii85]

I gave my vote for Empire Strikes back. Really good movie.

[Ver-go-a-go-go]

Considering I pretty much hated the entire "new" trilogy, my pick would have to lie within 4-6, all of which were excellent movies. I would probably go with Return of the Jedi though. After watching the first two, it truly was the best and most emotional ending the series could've had. Especially the end, with Luke, Vader, and Sideous. How Father and Son battled, and how the Father ultimately chose the love for his Son over all the anger and hate he had felt for his whole life.... on top of the epic duel. And after that, when Vader, who's on his deathbed, asks Luke to take off his one lifeline so he can see his Son with his true eyes before he dies........ sorry, but the cheesy acting and CGI flash show that was the prequels can never compare to it.

[linkman8]

sorry, but the cheesy acting and CGI flash show that was the prequels can never compare to it.
*facepalm* Ugh.. Not again... As much as I liked the original trilogy, I did feel that the 3 prequels did add up to them, especially episode III, which IMO was the best of them all. As far as I'm concerned, the only person who had cheesy acting would probably be Padme, but I thought the acting of Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christenson in the third movie was the best, along with their most epic duel. I don't care what anyone says, the duel between Obi-Wan and Anikan was the best duel in Star Wars history.

[Ver-go-a-go-go]

*facepalm* Ugh.. Not again... As much as I liked the original trilogy, I did feel that the 3 prequels did add up to them, especially episode III, which IMO was the best of them all. As far as I'm concerned, the only person who had cheesy acting would probably be Padme, but I thought the acting of Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christenson in the third movie was the best, along with their most epic duel. I don't care what anyone says, the duel between Obi-Wan and Anikan was the best duel in Star Wars history.

Please tell me you didn't think the acting in the first two was horrible? It did improve in the third, but the first two were extremely lame excuses. The balcony scene in II? Could've dipped my nachos in that one. And the acting leading up to the final battle in III was really bad too. Anakin's voice was so off, like he was trying so hard to sound all badass and epicly failed at it. Obi Wan did a good job, and Padme, like you said, was plain horrible. Then we get on to the flashy lights and coolio jumps. Yeah, I miss the day when summer movies were more than that.

And to top it all off.....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Worst. Line. Ever.

[Bluelink6]

My favorite is Return of the Jedi. The movie had great special effects for its time. The scene with Luke, the Emperor and Vader is the best part. Vader gets his arm chopped off...again. It's awesome when the Emperor is zapping Luke and Vader pauses to think whether or not he should kill the Emperor. At the last second, Vader picks up the Emperor and throws him down the pit. Luke drags Vader to his ship and takes off his mask to reveal his face. Ironic how Obi-Wan said that the only way to defeat the Emperor was for Luke to kill Vader, yet he was against it and taking off the mask makes him kill Vader anyways.

Yeah, that was the best of them all. But you know whast ruined it? Moderneness, if you ask me. Not the digital remastering- Remember that scene at the end, with ghosts Obi Wan Yoda and Anikin? Originally, Anikin was shown as an old man when he was a ghost, But they've edited to show his ghost as looking like Episode III Anikin. I really hate that.


Please tell me you didn't think the acting in the first two was horrible? It did improve in the third, but the first two were extremely lame excuses. The balcony scene in II? Could've dipped my nachos in that one. And the acting leading up to the final battle in III was really bad too. Anakin's voice was so off, like he was trying so hard to sound all badass and epicly failed at it. Obi Wan did a good job, and Padme, like you said, was plain horrible. Then we get on to the flashy lights and coolio jumps. Yeah, I miss the day when summer movies were more than that.

And to top it all off.....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Worst. Line. Ever.

Maybe. The acting in episode III Was better than its two prequels, but if you ask me, Obiwan, for epsiode III, was the best. He seemed to have a lot of personality, at least to me, the way he acted and joked sometimes, like when he left Anikin to the politicians. But I don't think any of the Obi-wans were as good as Alec Guinness, The Obi-wan of the original trilogy. He was the best, by far. He has face on a stamp, you know.

[linkman8]

Please tell me you didn't think the acting in the first two was horrible? It did improve in the third, but the first two were extremely lame excuses. The balcony scene in II? Could've dipped my nachos in that one. And the acting leading up to the final battle in III was really bad too. Anakin's voice was so off, like he was trying so hard to sound all badass and epicly failed at it. Obi Wan did a good job, and Padme, like you said, was plain horrible. Then we get on to the flashy lights and coolio jumps. Yeah, I miss the day when summer movies were more than that.

SOME of the acting on the first two was subpar, not to mention Jar Jar Binks was involved. However, the way I feel is that what it lacked in acting it made up for in script-writing and top of the line CGI. SPOILER! Anyone who didn't feel choked up at the Qui-Gon funeral scene has no feelings.
And by the way, I like those "flashy lights" and "coolio jumps". That's part of what made it such an epic fight scene at the end of III. The choreography was flawless. I'm not going to make any friends for this comment, but I laughed at the "lightsaber fight" between Obi-Wan and Darth Vader in episode IV. I watched the un-remastered version, because we have the old 1970's video tapes (I think; might be 80's), and along with being one of the slowest, most uninteresting fights in Star Wars history, the lightsabers turned into the acting sticks a few times because of subpar technology.

[Ver-go-a-go-go]

SOME of the acting on the first two was subpar, not to mention Jar Jar Binks was involved. However, the way I feel is that what it lacked in acting it made up for in script-writing and top of the line CGI. SPOILER! Anyone who didn't feel choked up at the Qui-Gon funeral scene has no feelings.

I guess I have no feelings then, because I already knew what a moron Qui-Gon was. Making a Jedi Master responsible for unleashing the greatest evil ever, starting the downfall of the Jedi, and being the reason millions of lives would be lost? No, it didn't work for me. Now if it had been the first movie ever, I might have. But meh, most people didn't even know what Star Wars was until the prequel was out, so they hadn't watched the previous three. And no, script writing falls apart with bad acting, just like good acting falls apart with bad script writing. One cannot fully support the other.


And by the way, I like those "flashy lights" and "coolio jumps". That's part of what made it such an epic fight scene at the end of III. The choreography was flawless. I'm not going to make any friends for this comment, but I laughed at the "lightsaber fight" between Obi-Wan and Darth Vader in episode IV. I watched the un-remastered version, because we have the old 1970's video tapes (I think; might be 80's), and along with being one of the slowest, most uninteresting fights in Star Wars history, the lightsabers turned into the acting sticks a few times because of subpar technology.

Which is why I hate what Star Wars has become. It's just now milked for every Jedi fight scene it can get, and is now only recognized by these special effects. Hence the shallow cartoon we now have , and the fanbase that is made up of little five year olds. The original trilogy never needed Jedi fight scenes, so that's why the generation now doesn't like them: Because they only identify Star Wars with special effects, take it away, and they don't like it. Which is my point. The prequels created this mindset.

I hate it when something becomes something it isn't just to please other people.

[Locke]

Prequel trilogy coreography was HORRIBLE. Mostly, it was just mindless violence, while in the original trilogy you could actually feel the emotions of each combatant with each swing of the 'saber.
Not to mention those horrible 2v1 battles. It seemed like they thought up the coreography for the one bad guy first, then molded the other 2 around him, which resulted in a lot of wasted moments during which the Jedi would just stand there and wait for the Sith to finish up with the other Jedi and face him before he could attack. It would have made more sense to focus on the two first, then fit the one in, making it much more epic and fast-paced.

[Bigelover88]

I grew up with the old trilogy and disliked the new trilogy except for RotS but the best episode will always remain ESB. That one was classical.

[Wielder of Aegis]

Return of the Jedi. The final half of the movie is mind-blowingly Chuck Norris!(Yes I did just use Chuck Norris as an adjective.) There's the Rebels trying to get into the bunker on Endor, the space battle, and the tremendous tension between Luke, Vader, and the Emporor. Perfect climax.

[athenian200]

My favorite was probably Empire Strikes Back, the second movie released.

I find the new numbering system confusing, though. Why do the NEW ones start with Episode I-III, while the OLD ones are IV-VI? It doesn't make any sense.

Anyway, my order of preference goes like this:

1. Empire Strikes Back
2. A New Hope
3. Revenge of the Sith
4. Attack of the Clones
5. Return of the Jedi/Phantom Menace

My least favorite movies in the series were Return of the Jedi and Phantom Menace. I dislike Return of the Jedi because it just feels like it's very linear, and just wraps up loose ends. I don't like Phantom Menace because it feels very "slow," and like nothing important or interesting really happens. It's like the counterpart to Return of the Jedi, because instead of wrapping up all the loose ends, it spends the whole time getting the stage set for the other movies.

Attack of the Clones was interesting because of the romance and rebellion aspect flaring up, and the whole Jango Fett thing. It's also interesting to see how the characters in A New Hope start drifting towards their roles in the first trilogy. It wasn't an AWESOME movie like the first three in my list, but I liked it better than a lot of other movies.

I don't really understand the tendency to compare trilogies. The first set of three had two great movies and one lousy one. The second set had one great movie, a so-so one, and a lousy one. Not that much difference.

[Bigelover88]

That is very simple because the NEW Trilogy suppose to happen before the Old ones. So that's why calling the new ones I-III make sense of course. And if you mean they named the old trilogy already IV-VI? They never did. This only happened when the trilogy box was released and when TPM was released.

[badmuffins]

I think A new hope was the best. It was just a classic.

[Steve]

The Phantom Menace is my favorite of the series. The nice thing about it is it had a balance of good acting, storyline, and action, rather than taking it too far with visuals like Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, but also not boring people with nothing but dialog and character development seen in A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back.

That's not to say that those characteristics a bad, but a good movie needs to keep it all level. Second to that would be Return of the Jedi, as once again kept all the attributes of a movie level for the most part, and the thing about both of the films is they really had a emotional feeling to them. Revenge of the Sith did as well, however it was built way too much around the CGI and attempted to cram way to much into a single film that it seemed like a very rushed movie. So ultimately, here is my order:

1. The Phantom Menace
2. Return of the Jedi
3. Revenge of the Sith
4. A New Hope
5. The Empire Strikes Back
6. Attack of the Clones

[Mikau94]

I liked Return of the jedi and A New Hope. Revenge of the Sith was the only good prequel.

[OniLink]

empire strikes back was the best one, you cant beat AT-AT's

[Ooccoo Watcher]

For me Episode V The Empire Stikes Back. It was just so awesomely Hothy. :clap: for it, I say

[Raven]

Empire for sure, it was the best out of the first three movies, which i consider to be better than the back story. revenge is a close second because it has one of the most crucial battles in the entire series and the special effects were top notch. But I stick with my initial decision because Empire set the stage for the final movie and did an excellent job of preparing Luke (HAHAHA I was about to type Link's name instead.... shame on me) for his confrontation with the dark lord of the Sith. It was the calm before the storm yet it was still action packed to the brim. Lucas has my undying respect.

[Zeruda]

Really, I think the newer episodes are absolutely horrible. Talk about cheesey acting all you want- that's just part of the series, but the newer titles are just beyond what I can handle. I'm surprised I didn't miss the entirey of them with all the facepalming that I did for the duration of the newer films.

Really, I love 4-6. 4 is still my favorite, but I see a lot of artistic value in it more than the others, and I think that's probably why it became my favorite. I dunno, the feeling that it gave me of wanting to see more just hasn't been matched.

[look]

I like all of them,but I like Empire Strikes Back most.it has the proper sweep of a real space opera, it has confidence, imagination, beauty, humour, excitement and a truly brilliant story.
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[PureLocke]

My list is

1. VI
2. V
3. IV
4. I
5. III
6. II

I liked the more intense fight scenes in the prequel trilogy but the special effects were to cover up everything it lacked compared to the original.
@ linkman8: How is Hayden Christensen's acting even comparable to Ewan McGregor's or Liam Neeson's? Also, the first Trilogy ILM created modern Special Effects.